Luther
It is interesting to note that Luther was not the first to attack the doctrines of the Roman Catholic church. My reference books are in storage, but (if memory serves me correctly) he was about the 12th monk to make an attempt to correct the doctrinal errors in the Roman church. What I find interesting is the progression of Luther’s thought and how different the doctrines are of the Lutheran churches today (in practice at least).
I was perusing the world of YouTube and stumbled across Concordia Publishing House’s channel. One of their videos was on confession:
I can remember when St. Paul’s reinstituted “scheduled” Private Confession. Yeah, we never really got rid of private confession, it just stayed in the Pastor’s study for when we had a crisis and needed to chit chat with our spiritual father.
Do remember that the Lutheran Church is a catholic (i.e. universal) church. So…what does this mean? We’ll, we are the only church that uses scripture and scripture alone as the norm of our faith. Other Christian denominations add various aspects – work, the pope, etc.
I was perusing the world of YouTube and stumbled across Concordia Publishing House’s channel. One of their videos was on confession:
I can remember when St. Paul’s reinstituted “scheduled” Private Confession. Yeah, we never really got rid of private confession, it just stayed in the Pastor’s study for when we had a crisis and needed to chit chat with our spiritual father.
Do remember that the Lutheran Church is a catholic (i.e. universal) church. So…what does this mean? We’ll, we are the only church that uses scripture and scripture alone as the norm of our faith. Other Christian denominations add various aspects – work, the pope, etc.